Improvement in washing-machines



J. WILBUR.

Washing-Machines.

NO.'] 35,9.5-5, Patented Feb.18,18'73;

U ITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

JOHN WILBUR, OFOHESTERTON, INDIANA.

IMPROVEMENT IN WASHING-MACHINES.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 135,955, dated February18, 1873.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, JOHN WILBUR, of Chesterton, in the county of Porterand State of Indiana, have invented. a new and useful Improvement inWashing-Machines; and I do declare that the following is a true andaccurate description thereof, reference being had to the accompanyingdrawing and to the'lettoward the main roll by springs at each end,

the fabric passing between the large and small rollers. The inventionconsists in' certain details of construction fully described hereinafter.

In the drawing, AArepresent the end-pieces or standards, in which isjournaled a cranked shaft, B, carrying a large corrugated wooden roll,0. In the inner face of each standard two vertical dovetail grooves, aa, are cut, and into each groove is inserted a dovetail-tongueprojecting from the middle of a short segment, D. The segments at eachend are coupled together by a link, b. In the segments are journaled theends of small rollers E. F is a spiral spring secured to the lower endofeach standard, and to the upper end of each standard is attached abail, G, whose upper ends are attached to the middle of each segment, soas to draw both down or allow one to move up independently of the other,which is highly essential where fabrics of varying thickness are runthrough between the roll and rollers. H H are two round girts, mortisedand projecting through the lower ends of the standards alit-tle way. Toone side of a wash-tub is screwed a wooden lug, I, with two holes in itto receive the ends of the girts H. To the other side of the tub isscrewed an inverted T-shaped block, I; and to secure the machine in thetub, insert the ends of the girts at one side in the holes of the lug I,and drop their other ends so asto embrace the block l,when

